On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (March 1, 2010) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.
1. Exercise Helps Anxious Patients
Exercise, known to help alleviate symptoms of depression, is found to help anxious patients become calmer, according to a new study.
2. Recession Takes a Bite out of Breakfast Sales
As more and more Americans lose their jobs to the recession, sales of fast food breakfasts drop steadily.
3. Pain Should Be Considered a Disease
Health experts say that chronic pain should be considered a disease in its own right, and that labeling it as such might lead to more research and treatments.
4. Weird Sleep: Exploding Head Syndrome, Sexsomnia
Science writer Stephanie Pappas writes about 10 weird sleep disorders, including 10 weird sleep disorders, including nightmare disorder, night terrors, REM behavior disorder, and nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder.
5. Manure Management Becomes Messy
While much has been done to control pollution from chemical sources, we face a new threat that is contaminating our air and water supplies – animal manure.
(By CalorieLab editors)
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Lab Notes: Exercise Helps Anxious Patients; Recession Takes a Bite out of Breakfast Sales